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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

544 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN AFFECT FOR CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD

COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 700 PM AND FOR BARTON COUNTY IN

MISSOURI UNTIL 745 PM...



AT 540 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SPRINGFIELD INDICATED

A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN FROM WARSAW TO

JUST NORTHWEST OF CAPLINGER MILLS TO NEAR LAMAR. INDIVIDUAL STORMS

ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.



REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT IN CRAWFORD COUNTY INDICATE WIDESPREAD

FLOODING IN THE PITTSBURG AREA. THE COOPERATIVE OBSERVER AT

PITTSBURG HAS REPORTED 3.30 INCHES OF RAIN AS OF 515 PM. OTHER

HIGHWAYS ARE FLOODED IN CHEROKEE COUNTY INCLUDING HIGHWAY 7 NEAR

SCAMMON. ROADS ARE UNDERWATER IN WESTERN BARTON COUNTY IN THE

MINDENMINES AREA WHERE THE OBSERVER THERE HAS MEASURED 3.10 INCHES

OF RAIN AS OF 520 PM.



ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS MOVING OUT OF THE WARNING AREA FOR

NOW...MORE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED LATER TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES

THROUGH THE AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS AFTENOONS RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO

THE EVENING HOURS CAUSING LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS LOW WATER CROSSINGS

TO FLOOD.



THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION...FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED.

IF YOU ARE NEAR...OR LIVE...IN A FLASH FLOOD PRONE AREA...MOVE

IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER GROUND.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WALK OR DRIVE

ACROSS AREAS WHERE WATER IS FLOWING.



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